Our geocoder team recently conducted some performance tests of Map Suite Geocoder 3.1.299.77 that we just released. If any of you have been curious to see some benchmarks and performance figures for the new geocoding and reverse geocoding components, here is some data that will interest you:

Geocoding Performance Benchmarks

Reverse Geocoding Performance Benchmarks

These benchmarks were conducted on an Intel Core2Quad Q6800 with 4GB of RAM and a single 7200 RPM hard disk.